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Centre exploring ways to deport 40,000 Rohingya Muslims

The issue of Rohingya Muslims was discussed at a meeting convened by union home secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and attended by J&K chief secretary and DGP.

More than 40,000 Rohingya Muslims belonging to Myanmar are currently living in Jammu and Kashmir, and the central and the state governments are exploring ways on how to identify and deport them.

The Rohingya Muslims are mostly living in Jammu and Samba districts and came to the state after entering India illegally through either Indo-Bangladesh border or Indo-Myanmar border or travelling through the Bay of Bengal.

 

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